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The Lawfare Podcast: Saria Samakie on Surviving Syria
Saria Samakie has a story unlike those of most of his peers at Georgetown. After being kidnapped three times in Syria, Samakie managed to flee the war-ravaged country and eventually arrived in the United... -
Document: Akayed Ullah Complaint
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are: -
The National Security Law Podcast: Around the Horn With Interrogation, Detention, Prosecution, and Targeting
In this week’s episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney pick up the thread on a handful of familiar issues and introduce a few new ones as well. -
Document: FY 18 NDAA President Signing Statement
President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. Read the conference report here and Lawfare's previous coverage highlighting parts of the bill here. The pre... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York brought five federal terrorism charges against Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday’s attempted suicide bombing in New York. The charges ar... -
Obstruction of Justice and the Presidency: Part II
In the first part of this series, I concluded that the “president cannot obstruct justice when he exercises his lawful authority that is vested by Article II of the Constitution.” For purposes of either ... -
The Fourth Circuit Travel Ban Argument: Framing the Challengers’ Case for the Supreme Court
The substance and tone of the Dec. 8 Fourth Circuit en banc argument in International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) v. Trump differed substantially from the Dec. 6 Ninth Circuit argument in Hawaii’s ... -
Public Confidence in the Mueller Investigations and Other Russia Investigations
In late November, as part of our monthly tracking of confidence in institutions engaged in national security activities, we polled for the second month on the question of “How much confidence do you have... -
Document: White House Dec. 11 War Powers Report
The White House Press Office has released the following letter, dated Dec. 11, 2017, informing Congress of current military operations consistent with the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of mili... -
ACLU v. Mattis and the Citizen Enemy Combatant in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
On Dec. 11, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments in ACLU v. Mattis on the question whether the ACLU should be permitted to represent a United States citizen who i... -
Help Us Build a Lawfare App
We are currently studying the problem of how to build a maximally useful Lawfare mobile app—and our tech team is looking to interview readers to figure out how people are using the site and what function... -
Choosing Between Federal Prosecution and Deportation
The legal and political debate over immigration detainers usually concerns the demands that the federal government makes of local law enforcement.
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